Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
NOVALISGenius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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